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Mrs. Rodriguez from Woodburn OR is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Oregon Battle of the Books Team Supporters Needed!

My students need 5 copies of each of the 8 books selected for 2014 Oregon Battle of the Books.

  • $275 goal

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

I'm coaching a group of five 4th grade students for the 2014 Oregon Battle of the Books. I'd like them to have copies of the books to keep so they can highlight and make notes in them. We are creating PowerPoint quizzes on each book and making them available to all students in the school.

All five of these kids are native Spanish speakers - English language learners, reading at a very high level in English.

The Oregon Battle of the Books competition is all in English. I give up my lunch twice a week to work with these awesome, intelligent, wonderful, bilingual, sweet kids! We read, discuss the books, and I ask them questions about the books. We are going to continue even through the summer to work together and get prepared.

My Project

We are requesting books! Specifically, we are requesting five copies each of the books that have been selected as the 3rd-5th grade books for the 2014 Oregon Battle of the Books so my students can highlight and take notes in them. More than 28% of students in my school are identified as living below poverty level, and approximately 80% are English language learners. In the last competition, the two teams of five students each in our school that reached the semifinals were all native English speaking students. At the regional competition where 53 schools competed, almost all students were native English speakers. Our 2014 team will represent the demographics of our school. We read, discuss, and study the books so they can prepare for the Battle of the Books competition, too.

I believe that the under-representation in finalist teams by English language learners is not due to lack of ability or interest.

Competing in a competition in English is more challenging for non-native speakers because they are learning to read in two languages rather than one, because English language idioms are often confusing, and because most of our ELL students' parents are not fluent in English and cannot help their children prepare for the competition or practice English reading.

Mrs. Rodriguez
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Pie • AKJ Books $5.10 5 $25.50
Young Fredle • AKJ Books $5.10 5 $25.50
Kenny & the Dragon • AKJ Books $5.10 5 $25.50
Abraham Lincoln • AKJ Books $4.37 5 $21.85
Gregor the Overlander: Book One in the Underland Chronicles • AKJ Books $5.10 5 $25.50
Eleven (pbk) • AKJ Books $5.10 5 $25.50
Into the Firestorm • AKJ Books $5.10 5 $25.50
The Birchbark House • AKJ Books $5.10 5 $25.50

Materials cost

$200.35

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.01

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$233.36

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$41.18

Total project goal

$274.54

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $274.54

2 Donors

-$224.54

Donations toward project cost

-$190.86

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.68

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

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 $0.00

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